ABSTRACT
The chapter employs a historical materialist approach to racism and scholarship about the political economy of housing. It demonstrates that, compared to the manifestations of racialization in state socialism, with the advancement of (housing) inequalities and playing a systemic role, anti-Roma racism is more severe and creates extremely deprived housing formations in capitalism. The authors conducted fieldwork in Baia Mare through interviews and collecting archival and current public administration documents and national legislation. The analysis illustrates systemic processes such as urban planning and urbanization, public and social housing production and distribution, demolitions, and evictions, by depicting how they worked in time in a particular space. It tracks the housing relocations of the racialized Roma into, from, and back to one of the districts of this city, starting with the 1950s until the present. The chapter concludes that the prevailing mode of production and associated ideologies reflected in state policies on housing, planning, territorial development, and employment determine Roma racialization and housing unevenness. The preexisting racialization of a particular group of people influences their territorial dispersal through housing arrangements, and subsequent racialization exacerbates the effects of their spatial relocation.
